Wednesday, March 30 - Undercurrent

Undercurrent (1946)

After a rapid engagement, Ann Hamilton (Katharine Hepburn), the dowdy daughter of a chemist, weds handsome industrialist Alan Garroway (Robert Taylor), knowing little of his family or past. Alan transforms Ann into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael (Robert Mitchum), his mysterious long-lost brother. Ann begins to suspect her new husband of the worst when she digs into the Garroway history and learns that Michael is believed to have been murdered.

Tuesday, March 29 - The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

For years, Henry Holland, a timid, bespectacled bank clerk, has been dreaming of getting his hands on the impregnable Bank of England's precious gold reserves. Nevertheless, after two long decades of service, even though Henry's got everything planned down to the last detail, the mousy gold bullion carrier realises that he can't pull it off all alone. As a result, Holland talks his artistic next-door neighbour, Alfred Pendlebury, into lending a hand to disguise gold ingots worth over £1 million as souvenir Eiffel Tower paperweights, and, before long, an audacious quartet of bank robbers embarks on a challenging and dangerous mission to strike it rich under everyone's noses.

Monday, March 28 - Hot News

Hot News (1953)

Ex-prize fighter Mark Miller, now a sports writer, sets out to expose a murderous gambling ring led by Dano Rizzo. He first learns about the ring when when a fighter dies as a result of ring injuries in a mis-matched fight. The boxer took the fight because of his love for Doris Burton, actually the girl friend of Rizzo. Doris' brother Bill gets involved when Rizzo threatens to ruin the (questionable) good name of his sister, unless he helps the gang with some fixed bets.

Sunday, March 27 - The Thief

The Thief (1952)

A nuclear scientist who betrays the American government is unable to outwit the FBI.

Saturday, March 26 - Other Men's Women

Other Men's Women (1931)

Railroad fireman Bill White is a carefree ladies' man with an irresponsible streak. His buddy Jack Kulper, an engineer, is more solid and reliable. Bill comes to stay a while with Jack and his wife Lily. Bill and Lily fall in love, but not wishing to hurt Jack, Bill leaves without explanation. When Jack confronts Bill about his suspicions, the two fight and Jack is seriously injured. Bill is consumed with guilt and tries to make good, but Jack has his own ideas about that.

Friday, March 25 - The Yellow Balloon

The Yellow Balloon (1953)

While running around a bombed-out London neighborhood with his friend, young Frankie Palmer (Andrew Ray) unwittingly leads his companion to an untimely demise when the boy falls from a building. As fate would have it, Len Turner (William Sylvester), a small-time crook, witnesses the entire incident, and decides to use the information to blackmail the child into stealing from his parents. However, Turner soon finds Frankie's knowledge of him and his crimes to be a threat that must be removed.

Thursday, March 24 - Johnny Staccato: The Poet's Touch

Johnny Staccato: The Poet's Touch (Season 1 Episode 11 aired Nov 26, 1959)

A young poet is jarred sober when his new low-life friends go too far and unintentionally kill a man. In the days that follow, Johnny investigates the poet's disappearance.

Wednesday, March 23 - Desperate

Desperate (1947)

Gangster Radak (Raymond Burr) and his cronies try to coerce truck driver Steve (Steve Brodie) into shipping stolen goods, but Steve manages to tip off the police and foil the crooks. Radak evades capture, but his brother ends up gunning down a policeman and going to jail. Radak and his men attempt to pressure Steve into taking the fall for the killing, using the well-being of the trucker's wife, Anne (Audrey Long), as leverage. But Anne and Steve manage to skip town, and the chase is on.

Tuesday, March 22 - Johnny Staccato: The Wild Reed & A Piece of Paradise

Johnny Staccato: The Wild Reed (Season 1 Episode 12 aired Dec 3, 1959)

Johnny Staccato investigates an old college friend who is now playing a bad saxophone in a cheap joint.

Johnny Staccato: A Piece of Paradise (Season 1 Episode 13 aired Dec 10, 1959)

Johnny helps his ex-jockey friend who has been accused of killing a dance hall hostess.

Monday, March 21 - The Heartbreak Kid

The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly instead. Her rich father is less than keen and lets everyone - including Lenny - know that he hates everything about him and the way he is going on.

Sunday, March 20 - The Out of Towners

The Out of Towners (1970)

George (Jack Lemmon) has been offered a promotion that would relocate him to New York City. He flies in with his wife, Gwen (Sandy Dennis), to the city for the job interview. After their flight is redirected to Boston due to heavy fog, the couple meets with disaster. Their luggage is missing, leaving them without money, and the entire city seems to be striking. George and Gwen struggle to survive the night before George's interview, questioning whether they want to move from their small town.

Saturday, March 19 - Nightfall

Nightfall (1956)

The artist James "Jim" Vanning meets the model Marie Gardner in a bar, and they have dinner together. When they leave the restaurant, Marie gives her address, but the gangsters John and Red abduct Jim and send Marie home. They want information about a satchel with US$350,000, but Jim tells them that he does not know where it is. They torture Jim, but he escapes and drives to Marie's apartment. He tells her that she is in danger, and he explains that he was camping in the snow in Moose with his friend Dr. Edward Gurston when they saw a car driving off the road. They went to the spot to help the victims, but they are subdued by John and Red. Red shoots and kills the doctor. The criminals believe they are both dead, but Red mistakenly takes the doctor's bag leaving the money behind. When Jim awakes, he flees with the money bag but loses it in the snow. Now the criminals are hunting him while he is also wanted by the police. Meanwhile, the insurance investigator Ben Fraser is also on the track of Jim, but he is curious about his behavior - living a simple life without spending the stolen money.

Friday, March 18 - The Irish in Us

The Irish in Us (1935)

The family consists of Pat, the cop, Mike the fireman, Danny the boxing promoter and Ma. Pat wants Danny to get a real job, because most of his fighters end up in Polookaville and Pat wants to marry Lucille. This means that he will leave the family and Danny needs a income to help support Ma. But Danny believes he has the fighter named Carbarn who will bring him fortune and is going with that. But Lucille meets Danny on the road one day and it means trouble for the family as she does not love Pat, but loves Danny.

Thursday, March 17 - The Luck of the Irish

The Luck of the Irish (1948)

Steven Fitzgerald, a newpaper reporter from New York, meets a leprechaun and a beautiful young woman while traveling in Ireland. When he returns to his fiance and her wealthy father's political campaign in New York, he finds that the leprechaun and the young woman are now in New York as well. Steven is torn between the wealth he might enjoy in New York or returning to his roots in Ireland.

Wednesday, March 16 - It Always Rains on Sunday

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

In a working class neighborhood in London, a housewife named Rose (Googie Withers) finds herself in a serious bind when her old lover, Tommy Swann (John McCallum), escapes from prison and winds up in her backyard. Rose wants to escape the drudgery of her daily life and remembers the charming man Swann was before prison. But when Swann suspects that Rose is about to turn him in, he snaps, and threatens to destroy not only her fantasies about him but her family's security as well.

Tuesday, March 15 - The Chalk Garden

The Chalk Garden (1964)

An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed and spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands the meaning of self-sacrifice, as an example of love, and grows into a better person.

Monday, March 14 - The Night My Number Came Up

The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

British Air Marshal Hardie (Michael Redgrave) is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot (Michael Hordern), in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to line up with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.

Sunday, March 13 - The Riddle of the Sands

The Riddle of the Sands (1979)

Set in 1901, and starring Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale and Jenny Agutter, it concerns the efforts of two British "yachtsmen" to avert a plot by the German Empire to launch a military seaborne invasion of the United Kingdom.

Saturday, March 12 - Eye of the Devil

Eye of the Devil (1966)

Vineyard owner Marquis Philippe de Montfaucon (David Niven) is called back to his castle Bellenac because of another dry season. He asks his wife and children to remain in Paris, but they still come after him. His wife Catherine de Montfaucon (Deborah Kerr) soon discovers that her husband is acting mysteriously and that his employees are following old pagan rituals that call for the life of the Marquis to save the crops.

Friday, March 11 - Pay or Die!

Pay or Die! (1960)

In the early 1900s, New York City mobsters intimidate local businesses in Little Italy, pressing their owners to pay protection fees or else risk injury to themselves and their property. Police Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino (Ernest Borgnine), an honest detective, heads the police Italian Squad, a team devoted to bringing these thugs to justice. Hoping to trace their roots to the notorious Sicilian Mafia, Petrosino nobly pursues the American mob -- whatever the consequences.

Thursday, March 10 - The Clouded Yellow

The Clouded Yellow (1950)

After Secret Service agent David Somers is fired, he takes a quiet job with the Fentons at their country estate - cataloging butterflies, hence the title insect. David grows fond of Jess Fenton's niece, a fragile, fey young woman named Sophie. Because he hates traps of any kind, he reacts quickly after Sophie is framed for the murder of Hick, the nasty handyman. He helps her escape London by using his agent's skills and a network of old friends. The pair lead the police and David's ex-employers an exciting chase, from Newcastle to the Lake District to Liverpool. As the fugitives try to catch a ship for France, everyone, including the murderer, join in the finale.

Wednesday, March 9 - The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye (1973)

In the middle of the night, private eye Philip Marlowe drives his friend Terry Lennox to the Mexican border. When Marlowe returns home police are waiting for him and he learns that Terry's wife Sylvia has been killed. He's arrested as an accessory but released after a few days and is told the case is closed since Terry Lennox has seemingly committed suicide in Mexico.

Marlowe is visited by mobster Marty Augustine who wants to know what happened to the $350,000 Lennox was supposed to deliver for him. Meanwhile, Marlowe is hired by Eileen Wade to find her husband Roger who has a habit of disappearing when he wants to dry out but she can't find him in any any of his usual haunts. He finds him at Dr. Veringer's clinic and brings him. It soon becomes obvious to Marlowe that Terry's death, the Wades and Augustine are all somehow interconnected. Figuring out just what those connections are however will be anything but easy.

Tuesday, March 8 - Wings of Danger

Dead on Course Original title: Wings of Danger (1952)

When Richard Van Ness tries to ground dashing pilot Nick Talbot, his girlfriend's brother, from flying an unimportant cargo run in foul weather, he is blackmailed into allowing it because Nick threatens to tell airline boss Boyd Spencer about Van's intermittent blackouts. When Nick's plane apparently crashes near the Channel Islands, there are many nagging questions about the circumstances. Although he is innocent himself of wrongdoing, Van Ness is pressured by the police to aid them in uncovering some of the criminal activities associated with the operation, including blackmail, smuggling gold, and counterfeiting. In order to obtain the information he needs, Van Ness is forced into romancing Boyd's grasping girlfriend, who finds herself very attracted to the flier.

Monday, March 7 - The Ghost Train

The Ghost Train (1941)

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night. In between the scary bits, comedian Arthur Askey plays the gags with his music-hall style humor, to the constant irritation of his fellow passengers.

Sunday, March 6 - The Crimson Kimono

The Crimson Kimono (1959)

Two Los Angeles detectives, inseparable friends since their time in Korea, are assigned to investigate the murder of a burlesque stripper. Circumstance conspires to test their friendship to the full when they both fall in love with a beautiful woman whom they meet in the course of their work.

Saturday, March 5 - The Small World of Sammy Lee

The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)

A striptease-show compere is hunted across the seedy London underworld of Soho by debt collectors.

Sammy Lee has five hours to pay off a gambling debt.

Friday, March 4 - The Wanderers

The Wanderers (1979)

The Wanderers are an Italian-American gang vying for respect on the streets of the Bronx in 1963. Between rumbles with rivals such as the Ducky Boys and the Fordham Baldies, the group of toughs learn some difficult lessons about life -- and love. Leader Richie Gennaro (Ken Wahl) finds himself entangled with Despie Galasso (Toni Kalem), the daughter of a mobster, while the artistically inclined Joey (John Friedrich) falls hard for Nina (Karen Allen).

...well, something like that...

Thursday, March 3 - The Bribe

The Bribe (1949)

In pursuit of stolen aircraft engines on Carlotta, a Central American island, federal agent Rigby meets chief suspect Hintten and his wife Elizabeth, a sultry cafe singer. He is watched by Bealer, a "pie-shaped man" with sore feet. Rigby knows he's on the right track when Bealer offers him money to leave Carlotta. When Rigby and Elizabeth are drawn to each other, the gang realizes there's more than one kind of bribe.

Wednesday, March 2 - Twilight Women

Twilight Women - Original title: Women of Twilight (1952)

When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret or three.

Tuesday, March 1 - Split Second

Split Second (1953)

Two escaped killers take hostages and hide in a Nevada mining ghost town knowing that an atom bomb is scheduled to be tested there the next morning.

Monday, February 28 - Passport to Pimlico

Passport to Pimlico (1949)

The accidental explosion of an undetonated German bomb left over from World War II unearths a long-buried cellar containing both fabulous riches and a previously unknown royal charter from King Edward IV that cedes the surrounding land to the last Duke of Burgundy. Since the charter has never been rescinded, the London district of Pimlico is now legally the long-lost Duchy of Burgundy, and therefore no longer subject to British law, including postwar rationing and pub closure hours.

As things proceed, one wacky development after another follows...